Epitaph

IGCyr024500

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Source Description

Repository

Cyrene Museum, 609.

Support

White marble stele, slightly tapering, with plain moulded cornice on top, of which the right angle is broken off (with moulding 0.29 to 0.30; 0.92;0.28).

Layout

Inscription begins at 0.10 m below moulding (0.265 to 0.30; 0.86;0.26 to 0.29).

Letters

0.028.

Place of Origin

Cyrene , probably North Necropolis .

Date

Between 325 and 275 B.C. (lettering)

Findspot

Found by H.F. De Cou (Mission Norton) in 1911 at Cyrene : from the house of Turkish Mudir, in the North Necropolis , perhaps from tomb N241 (Thorn).

Last recorded Location

Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1997 in Shahat : Cyrene Museum .

Text constituted from

Transcription from stone (CDL).

Bibliography

Robinson, 1913 , pp. 171-172, n. 36; Oliverio, 1933-1936 , p. 112, n. 89, fig. 45, whence SEG , 9.201. Cf. Sammelbuch 5884; DGE 231,4; Applebaum, 1954 , pp. 41-54, whence SEG , 17.812; Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983 , n. 15, whence SEG , 33.1369; Thorn-Thorn, 2009 , p. 92.

Text

Θεύδωρος [Ἰ]άσονος.

Apparatus

French translation

Theudôros fils de Iasôn.

English translation

Theudoros son of Iason.

Italian translation

Theudoros figlio di Iason.

Commentary

As the stele was seen by De Cou in 'the house of the Mudir', it might come from the vicinity. The Thorns thus proposed to assign it to Tomb N241.

Applebaum considers this man a Jew, whereas Lüderitz is much more cautious about the question. It should at least be remembered that both names belong to stems that were very popular in Cyrenaean onomastics well before the arrival of Jews in the region. The question should thus remain open.

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